Re: Character Variant Deployment at VeriSign

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@xxxxxxx>]

At 8:52 AM +0800 5/22/03, James Seng wrote:
> > If "I get x2 too" means that x2 appears in the DNS zone at no additional
> > charge, then I agree, a language tag would be useful.
>
> Read the JET IDN Admin.

It would be nice to do that, but the newest version has not been 
published. Many of us have been told that the next version will have 
significant changes, so we are waiting (only somewhat patiently) for 
it.

>  Depending on what kind of variants, it may or it may not end up in 
> the zonefile. As for the question involving cost, that is left out 
> of the document *intentionally* because we dont think IETF is the 
> forum to discuss that.

This is no longer being discussed in the IETF. Further, many people 
(such as some JET authors) have brought up costs as one of the 
motivators for different IDN policies. Thus, ignoring costs in the 
JET document creates an incomplete document.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium